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[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] REMINDER:] ``Learning and attention in infants: The importance of prediction in development`` by Richard Aslin (Haskins Lab) on Thursday, January 10, 2019

by Gyorgyne Finta

REMINDER: Dear all, The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to its talk by: Richard Aslin (Haskins Laboratory) Date: Thursday, January 10, 2019 - 13:00-14:00 Note the extraordinary timing please! Host: Jozsef Fiser Location: Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Oktober 6 street 7, room 101. Title: "Learning and attention in infants: The importance of prediction in development" Abstract: I will review three lines of research from my lab that have implications for the normative course of development and for the diagnosis of deficits or delays in development among special populations. (1) Statistical learning is a rapid form of implicitly extracting information from the environment. It has been shown to be robustly present in infants, children, and adults. Children with Specific Language Impairment and adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder show different patterns of statistical learning. It may, therefore, serve as both a diagnostic tool and as a potential mechanism that underlies some developmental disorders. (2) The allocation of attention to gather information via statistical learning is controlled by both low-level stimulus salience and by predictive mechanisms. Infants allocate their attention to visual and auditory events so that they ignore both overly simple and overly complex information, while focusing mostly on information of medium complexity. Deviations from this normative pattern of allocating attention may contribute to some developmental disorders. (3) The infant brain must make predictions about upcoming stimuli. We have shown using a brain imaging technique called functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) that an auditory cue can predict a visual stimulus, and even in the absence of the visual stimulus this prediction will elicit a brain response in the visual cortex. A follow-up study of prematurely born infants revealed that this brain signature of prediction is absent, despite these at-risk infants (tested at their corrected age) showing predictions at the behavioral level. See more at: https://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/events/2019-01-10/departmental-colloquium-… We look forward to seeing you there! Cognitive Science Events at CEU: http://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/events Györgyné Finta (Réka) Department Coordinator ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Central European University Department of Cognitive Science H-1051 Budapest Oktober 6 utca 7. tel: (36-1) 887-5138 fax: (36-1) 887-5010 http://www.ceu.edu http://cognitivescience.ceu.edu ______________________________________________ Subscribe by sending an empty mail to talks-subscribe(a)cogsci.ceu.edu Unsubscribe by sending an empty mail to talks-unsubscribe(a)cogsci.ceu.edu

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[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] ``Learning and attention in infants: The importance of prediction in development`` by Richard Aslin (Haskins Lab) on Thursday, January 10, 2019

by Gyorgyne Finta

Dear all, The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to its talk by: Richard Aslin (Haskins Laboratory) Date: Thursday, January 10, 2019 - 13:00-14:00 Note the extraordinary timing please! Host: Jozsef Fiser Location: Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Oktober 6 street 7, room 101. Title: "Learning and attention in infants: The importance of prediction in development" Abstract: I will review three lines of research from my lab that have implications for the normative course of development and for the diagnosis of deficits or delays in development among special populations. (1) Statistical learning is a rapid form of implicitly extracting information from the environment. It has been shown to be robustly present in infants, children, and adults. Children with Specific Language Impairment and adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder show different patterns of statistical learning. It may, therefore, serve as both a diagnostic tool and as a potential mechanism that underlies some developmental disorders. (2) The allocation of attention to gather information via statistical learning is controlled by both low-level stimulus salience and by predictive mechanisms. Infants allocate their attention to visual and auditory events so that they ignore both overly simple and overly complex information, while focusing mostly on information of medium complexity. Deviations from this normative pattern of allocating attention may contribute to some developmental disorders. (3) The infant brain must make predictions about upcoming stimuli. We have shown using a brain imaging technique called functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) that an auditory cue can predict a visual stimulus, and even in the absence of the visual stimulus this prediction will elicit a brain response in the visual cortex. A follow-up study of prematurely born infants revealed that this brain signature of prediction is absent, despite these at-risk infants (tested at their corrected age) showing predictions at the behavioral level. See more at: https://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/events/2019-01-10/departmental-colloquium-… We look forward to seeing you there! Cognitive Science Events at CEU: http://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/events Györgyné Finta (Réka) Department Coordinator ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Central European University Department of Cognitive Science H-1051 Budapest Oktober 6 utca 7. tel: (36-1) 887-5138 fax: (36-1) 887-5010 http://www.ceu.edu http://cognitivescience.ceu.edu ______________________________________________ Subscribe by sending an empty mail to talks-subscribe(a)cogsci.ceu.edu Unsubscribe by sending an empty mail to talks-unsubscribe(a)cogsci.ceu.edu

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[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] REMINDER: Invitation to the Doctoral Defense of Jozsef Arato, Department of Cognitive Science, January 9, 10 am, October Hall

by Gyorgyne Finta

The Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to the public defense of the PhD thesis Active learning as a link between environmental statistics and the development of internal representations by József Arató PRIMARY SUPERVISOR: József Fiser SECONDARY SUPERVISOR: Gergely Csibra External Advisor: Constantin Rothkopf Members of the Dissertation Committee: Ernő Téglás, Chair, CEU Christopher Summerfield, external examiner, University of Oxford Richard Aslin, external examiner, Haskins Laboratories abstract | Although it is known that facing a dynamically changing sensory stream, people's perceptual decisions could be influenced not only by individual past stimuli, but also by extracted summary statistics of the stimuli, the effects of these long-term influences are underexplored. In the present thesis, I explored the impact of past stimulus statistics on two distinct types of visual decisions. In the first line of research, in Chapters 2-3, I focused on visual explorative decisions via eye-movements and investigated whether hidden statistical structures of complex scenes could influence visual exploration. I found that spatial regularities of visual stimuli influenced explorative eye-movement patterns, that this effect emerged over time, and it could predict the success in learning the underlying structure of the input. These findings suggest a strong relationship between visual exploration and learning, during which the two processes continuously influence each other. I also showed how this relationship depended on the explicit vs. implicit nature of the task. In the second line of research, in Chapters 4-5, I explored long-term statistical influences in perceptual decision making. To this end, I tested the influence of past probabilities of appearance on discrimination judgments about ambiguous stimuli. I found that statistics of past stimulus strongly influenced perceptual decisions independently of the well-documented short-term sequential effects. This past influence depended on the change-dynamics between long-term and recent stimulus probabilities, sometimes resulting in locally irrational biases. Taken together, the results in these two research domains are consistent with a framework, in which past stimulus statistics are perpetually and automatically built into complex internal representations, which in turn, depending on the task and type of regularity, can dramatically influence visual decisions. The defense will take place at October Hall, V. Budapest, Október 6 street 7, ground floor on Wednesday, January 9, at 10 am organized by the Department of Cognitive Science Györgyné Finta (Réka) Department Coordinator ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Central European University Department of Cognitive Science H-1051 Budapest Oktober 6 utca 7. tel: (36-1) 887-5138 fax: (36-1) 887-5010 http://www.ceu.edu http://cognitivescience.ceu.edu ______________________________________________ Subscribe by sending an empty mail to talks-subscribe(a)cogsci.ceu.edu Unsubscribe by sending an empty mail to talks-unsubscribe(a)cogsci.ceu.edu

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[Koglist] kognitív mozgalom története

by Csaba Pleh

https://mersz.hu/hivatkozas/matud_f16553#matud_f16553 Csaba Pléh distinguished visiting professor CEU Dept of Cognitive Science 1051 Budapest Nádor u. 9 Hungary office: Október 6. u. 7, I. e 104 Tel.: 36 303493735 plehcsaba.eu review editor, Hungarian Journal of Psychology member of HAS and AE

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[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] Invitation to the Doctoral Defense of Jozsef Arato, Department of Cognitive Science, January 9, 10 am, October Hall

by Gyorgyne Finta

7 years, 5 months

[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] CEU Departmental Colloquium, January 9: Ben Kenward (Oxford Brookes University) - Children's conceptions of norms and their attitudes to norm violations

by Denis Tatone

The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to its talk by: Dr. *Ben Kenward* (Oxford Brookes University) [web <https://www.brookes.ac.uk/templates/pages/staff.aspx?uid=p0078109>] Title: *Children's conceptions of norms and their attitudes to norm violations* Date: Wednesday, 09 January 2019 Time: 17:00-18:30 Location: Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Oktober 6 st. 7, room 10 Abstract: This presentation will combine two approaches to understanding young children’s conceptions of normativity. Firstly, a theoretical argument integrating a large body of literature (including the well-established protest paradigm) will be advanced, suggesting that the earliest conceptions of what is right (normative) is not well-differentiated from what is intended. For philosophers, an almost insurmountable challenge has been to explain how what should be can be inferred from what is. For psychologists, the challenge is instead to explain why humans in fact routinely make that inference. This theory posits that the normativity concept arises from the interaction between phylogenetically ancient valence-based approach/avoid systems and more recent linguistic systems supporting talk about good and bad. The conflation between what is and what ought to be arises because of automatic connections between valence judgement and intention generation systems. Secondly this talk will focus on the presenter’s own program of empirical work examining children’s responses to moral norm violations, with the ultimate aim of discovering the proximate causes of children’s punishment motivation. Cross-cultural similarities will be demonstrated in young children’s tendencies to inflict punishment for norm violations. Unexpectedly, however, the most recent findings suggest that children punish without enjoying it, and their primary motivation is to deter norm violations, in contrast to the conclusions from much adult work suggesting that adults are primarily motivated by retribution. We are looking forward to see you. Cognitive Science Events at CEU: http://cognitivescience.ceu.hu/events ______________________________________________ Subscribe by sending an empty mail to talks-subscribe(a)cogsci.ceu.edu Unsubscribe by sending an empty mail to talks-unsubscribe(a)cogsci.ceu.edu

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[Koglist] meghívó, Balázs László 70

by Takács Endre

Kedves Kollégák! Az MTA TTK Kognitív Idegtudományi és Pszichológiai Intézete tisztelettel meghívja Önöket ünnepi ülésére, melyet Dr. Balázs László 70. születésnapja alkalmából rendez. Időpont: 2019. január 11. péntek, 13:00 Helyszín: MTA Természettudományi Kutatóközpont, földszinti nagyterem 1117 Budapest, Magyar tudósok körútja 2. Program: 13:00 – 13:20 Megnyitó: Winkler István, az MTA-TTK Kognitív Idegtudományi és Pszichológiai Intézet igazgatója Köszöntő: Czigler István, az MTA-TTK Kognitív Idegtudományi és Pszichológiai Intézet volt igazgatója 13:30 – 15:00 Szakmai előadások Takács Endre: Oxigén nélkül mit érek én: eredmények a hypoxia kutatásából Ehmann Bea: Földi űranalóg helyszíneken működő izolált kiscsoportok pszichológiai folyamatainak távoli monitorozása Barkaszi Irén: A hosszú távú űrutazás hatása a kognitív funkciókra: a Neurospat kísérlet 15:30 – Beszélgetés az ünnepelttel, személyes köszöntések Utána torta, sütemény, pezsgő. Üdvözlettel Takács Endre

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[Koglist] PhD studies: perception and action in the VR

by Alen Hajnal

Kedves KogList tagok: szeretettel varom minden erdeklodo hallgato jelentkezeset az alabbi hirdetesre. The Perception Action Cognition (PAC) Lab is looking for new graduate students for a starting date of August 2019. Current research topics include virtual reality affordances postural stability fractality of motor behavior What I am looking for in a graduate student is a dedicated, highly motivated person with excellent quantitative and behavioral statistics skills. Minimally, I require from the candidate to express the willingness to learn some of the essential computing tools such as MATLAB, R, and others. Our lab works with Oculus Rift VR systems and Pupil Labs eye trackers. We also have a 5-camera VICON motion capture system. The successful applicant will receive a full paid assistantship (with a tuition waiver) that is renewable every year for 4 years. The deadline for applications is March 1, 2019. As part of the application package we require the submission of official university transcripts, GRE scores, TOEFL (for international applicants), statement of research interests, and 3 recommendation letters. Submit an application to the Brain and Behavior PhD program here: https://usouthernmiss.hobsonsradius.com/ssc/zx671wA867020x6702ll0l.ssc For a comprehensive list of research publications, please check out my google scholar profile: <http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=c9bakr4AAAAJ&hl=en>https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=c9bakr4AAAAJ&view_op=list_w… ---------- Alen Hajnal, PhD. Associate Professor Brain and Behavior Program Director<https://www.usm.edu/brain-and-behavior> Perception Action Cognition Lab<https://sites.google.com/view/paclab> School of Psychology University of Southern Mississippi

7 years, 6 months

[Koglist] Theoretical Philosophy Forum, Tamas Ullmann

by Laszlo E. Szabo

THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY FORUM Institute of Philosophy Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös University Address: Múzeum krt. 4/i, Budapest 12 December (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226 Tamás Ullmann Department of Modern Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy Eötvös Loránd University Budapest Nyelv és evolúció (Language and evolution) _______________________________ Abstracts and printable program (poster) are available from the web site of the Forum: http://phil.elte.hu/tpf (Please feel free to post the program in your institution!) The Forum is open to everyone, including students, visitors, and faculty members from all departments and institutes! Format: 60 minute lecture, coffee break, 60 minute discussion. The organizer of the Forum: Laszlo E. Szabo (leszabo(a)phil.elte.hu) -- L a s z l o E. S z a b o Professor of Philosophy DEPARTMENT OF LOGIC, INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY EOTVOS UNIVERSITY, BUDAPEST http://phil.elte.hu/leszabo

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[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] Today: BOOK LAUNCH: ‘What’s Left of Human Nature?’ by Maria Kronfeldner

by socialmind

Dear All You are cordially invited to the book launch ‘What’s Left of Human Nature?’ by Maria Kronfeldner Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy, CEU on Wednesday, 5 December from 5:00 pm in Room 101, October 6 street 7. Moderator: Tim Crane Professor at the Department of Philosophy, CEU [cid:image003.jpg@01D4873C.A6BB5770] Human nature has always been a foundational issue for philosophy and cognitive sciences. Maria Kronfeldner's book “What’s Left of Human Nature?” presents a philosophical account of human nature that defends the concept against dehumanization, Darwinian, and developmentalist challenges. In "What's Left of Human Nature<http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/whats-left-human-nature>?” Maria Kronfeldner asks: What does it mean to have a human nature? Is the concept the relic of a bygone age? What is the use of such a concept? What are the epistemic and ontological commitments people make when they use the concept? She answers these questions by offering a philosophical account of human nature that defends the concept against contemporary criticism. In particular, she takes on challenges related to social misuse of the concept that dehumanizes those regarded as lacking human nature (the dehumanization challenge); the conflict between Darwinian thinking and essentialist concepts of human nature (the Darwinian challenge); and the consensus that evolution, heredity, and ontogenetic development result from nurture and nature. After answering each of these challenges, Kronfeldner presents a revisionist account of human nature that minimizes dehumanization and does not fall back on outdated biological ideas. Her account is post-essentialist because it eliminates the concept of an essence of being human; pluralist in that it argues that there are different things in the world that correspond to three different post-essentialist concepts of human nature; and interactive because it understands nature and nurture as interacting at the developmental, epigenetic, and evolutionary levels. On the basis of this, she introduces a dialectical concept of an ever-changing and “looping” human nature. Finally, noting the essentially contested character of the concept and the ambiguity and redundancy of the terminology, she wonders if we should simply eliminate the term “human nature” altogether. https://philosophy.ceu.edu/events/2018-12-05/book-launch-whats-left-human-n… http://socialmind.ceu.edu/events/2018-12-05/book-launch-whats-left-human-na… ______________________________________________ Subscribe by sending an empty mail to talks-subscribe(a)cogsci.ceu.edu Unsubscribe by sending an empty mail to talks-unsubscribe(a)cogsci.ceu.edu

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